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Whose Country Music?
Genre, Identity, and Belonging in Twenty-First-Century Country Music Culture

Editors:
Paula J. Bishop, Bridgewater State University
Jada E. Watson, University of Ottawa

Alice Randall, Kristine M. McCusker, Rachel Skaggs, Jada Watson, Sophia Enriquez, Stephanie Vander Wel, Phoebe E. Hughes, Jocelyn R. Neal, Leigh H. Edwards, Paula J. Bishop, Janet Aspley, Nancy P. Riley, Kristina Jacobsen, Nadine Hubbs, Rebekah Hutten, Tracey E. Laird, Rissi Palmer

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Date Published: December 2022
availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108837125

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In a period in which racism and gender inequity are at the fore of public, political, and scholarly discourse, this collection challenges systems of gatekeeping that have dictated who gets to participate in twenty-first century country music culture. Building on established scholarship, this book examines contemporary issues in country music through feminist, intersectional, and post-colonialist theories, as well as other intertextual and cultural lenses. The authors pose questions about diversity, representation, and identity as they relate to larger concepts of artist and fan communities, stylistic considerations of the genre, and modes of production from a twenty-first century perspective. Addressing and challenging the received narrative about country music culture, this collection delves into the gaps that are inherent in existing approaches that privileged biography and historiography and expands new areas of inquiry relating to contemporary country music identity and culture.
- Addresses and challenges the received narrative about country music culture, which emphasizes artist biography and privileges white, Southern, working-class, heterosexual men to the exclusion of women, gay or transgendered artists, artists of color, and communities outside of the South
- Poses questions about diversity, representation, and identity as they relate to larger concepts of artist and fan communities, stylistic considerations of the genre, and modes of production from a twenty-first century perspective
- Expands new areas of inquiry and methodologies in order to delve into the gaps that are inherent in existing approaches that privileged biography and historiography
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Product details
- Date Published: December 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108837125
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 250 x 175 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.73kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Industry:
1. Mailbox Money: Novel Liberation Strategies of a Black Female Country Songwriter Alice Randall
2. Dixie Chicked: Sony vs. The Chicks and the Regendering of Country Music in the Early Twentieth-Century Kristine M. McCusker
3. How 360° Deals Homogenized Country Music Rachel Skaggs
4. A Double-Edged Sword: Industry Data and the Construction of Country Music Narratives Jada Watson
Codes of Conduct:
5. Why Country Music Needs Latina Feminism Sophia Enriquez
6. Pistol Annies: Country Rebels with Humor Stephanie Vander Wel
7. From Bros to Gentlemen: The Problem of Consent in Contemporary Country Music Phoebe E. Hughes
8. Cowboys on a Beach: Summer Country and the Loss of Working-Class Identity Jocelyn R. Neal. Authenticity:
9. Dolly Parton's Netflix Reimagining: How Her Twenty-First Century 'Jolene' Revises Country Music's Authenticity Narrative Leigh H. Edwards
10. 'When Britney [Spears] Ruled the World': Expanding the Stylistic Boundaries of Nostalgia in Country Music Paula J. Bishop
11. Rhinestone Revivals: Repurposing the Nudie Suit for the Twenty-first Century Janet Aspley
12. Country Music Doesn't Have to Suck: Intertextuality, Community, and Bloodshot Records Nancy P. Riley. Boundary Work:
13. Playing at the Border: Navajo Country Western Music and Border Town Racism Kristina Jacobsen
14. Country-Loving Mexican Americans: Dual Patriotism and Inevitable Fandom among Mexican American Country Music Lovers Nadine Hubbs
15. Practices of Genre Surveillance in Country Music: Hearing Racial Politics in Beyoncé's and The Chicks' 'Daddy Lessons' Rebekah Hutten
16. 'We Have a Lot of Work to Do': Rhiannon Giddens and Country Music's Mixed Roots Tracey E. Laird. Epilogue: Country Music Needs a Revolution Rissi Palmer.
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Editors
Paula J. Bishop, Bridgewater State University
Paula Bishop teaches in the Music Department at Bridgewater State University. She earned her PhD from Boston University with a dissertation on the Everly Brothers and has presented and published on the Everly Brothers, the Nashville songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, and feminism and country music.
Jada E. Watson, University of Ottawa
Jada Watson is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa. Principal Investigator of SongData, her research uses market data to address representation in country music. This work was cited in a brief submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission opposing radio deregulation, and the Recording Academy's Report on Inclusion and Diversity.
Contributors
Alice Randall, Kristine M. McCusker, Rachel Skaggs, Jada Watson, Sophia Enriquez, Stephanie Vander Wel, Phoebe E. Hughes, Jocelyn R. Neal, Leigh H. Edwards, Paula J. Bishop, Janet Aspley, Nancy P. Riley, Kristina Jacobsen, Nadine Hubbs, Rebekah Hutten, Tracey E. Laird, Rissi Palmer